Books : reviews

This pioneering text/reference explores how innovative new modes of computation
may provide exciting new directions for future developments in the music industry,
guiding the reader through the latest research in this emerging, interdisciplinary field.
This work includes coverage of electronic music compositions and performances that
incorporate unconventional interfacing, hacking and circuit bending.

Topics and features:
• Presents an introduction to the broader field of unconventional computing,
and to the application of unconventional computing in music composition and performances
• Discusses initiatives involving biophysical electronic music, the work of self-styled
silicon luthiers, and the intersection of music and quantum computing
• Introduces the memristor, a new electronic component with the potential to
revolutionize how computers are built in the future
• Reviews experiments and practical applications of biological memristors in music
• Describes IMUSIC, an unconventional tone-based programming language,
which enables the programming of computers using musical phrases
• Includes review questions at the end of each chapter